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Rich in baseball lore, civic history, and the wheeling and dealing, alliances and betrayals, and sharp-elbowed machinations of big-city business and politics

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Looking Backward, 1957-1845
Where Baseball Came From
The Teams, the Ballparks
Brooklyn: We Simply Live Here
Stoneham and O'Malley: Sinful Fathers
Stoneham and O'Malley: Favored Sons
Citizen McLaughlin and Commissioner Moses
Part II. Into the 1950s
Gold and Tarnish
Mid-Century Movement: Veeck--as in Veeck--as in Veeck
Rumblings in New York
The Man in the Middle
Inching Westward?
A Stadium on Stilts
Atlantic and Flatbush, Continued
Part III. 1957
New York 1957
O'Malley in Winter
Buying in Los Angeles, Looking All Around
Opening Day
A Trip to Flushing Meadow
The Harlem and the Mississippi
Enter Mayor Christopher
Going? Where?
In and Out of the Race
In Congress
A New Idea for Flushing Meadow
The New York Giants--1883-1957
Voices in the Twilight
Summer's End
Pafko at the Wall
Obit
Till the Last Man Is Out
Aftermath: Sunshine and Shadow
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Bibliography
Notes
Index

After Many a Summer The Passing of the Giants

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/2013
      ISBN13: 9780803245730, 978-0803245730
      ISBN10: 0803245734
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Rich in baseball lore, civic history, and the wheeling and dealing, alliances and betrayals, and sharp-elbowed machinations of big-city business and politics

      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      Part I. Looking Backward, 1957-1845
      Where Baseball Came From
      The Teams, the Ballparks
      Brooklyn: We Simply Live Here
      Stoneham and O'Malley: Sinful Fathers
      Stoneham and O'Malley: Favored Sons
      Citizen McLaughlin and Commissioner Moses
      Part II. Into the 1950s
      Gold and Tarnish
      Mid-Century Movement: Veeck--as in Veeck--as in Veeck
      Rumblings in New York
      The Man in the Middle
      Inching Westward?
      A Stadium on Stilts
      Atlantic and Flatbush, Continued
      Part III. 1957
      New York 1957
      O'Malley in Winter
      Buying in Los Angeles, Looking All Around
      Opening Day
      A Trip to Flushing Meadow
      The Harlem and the Mississippi
      Enter Mayor Christopher
      Going? Where?
      In and Out of the Race
      In Congress
      A New Idea for Flushing Meadow
      The New York Giants--1883-1957
      Voices in the Twilight
      Summer's End
      Pafko at the Wall
      Obit
      Till the Last Man Is Out
      Aftermath: Sunshine and Shadow
      Acknowledgments
      A Note on Sources
      Bibliography
      Notes
      Index

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